Jara language

Jara
Native to Nigeria
Region Borno and Gombei States, Biu, Kwaya-Kusar, Akko and Yamaltu-Deba LGAs.
Native speakers
46,000 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 jaf
Glottolog jara1274[2]

Jara, also known as Jera, is a Nigerian language reported to be spoken by 46,000 people in 2000.[1] It is spoken in Borno and Gombe States, in the Biu, Kwaya-Kusar, Akko, and Yamaltu-Deba LGAs. It is an Afro-Asiatic language, in the Biu–Mandara branch of Chadic family. Use of Jara is declining; it is being displaced by Fulfulde and Hausa.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Jara at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Jara". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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